#swappy holidays

[jan-hen]

PREVIEW - Swappy Holidays 2024! 🎄

A preview of this year's holiday illustration, featuring Jason and Isabella's life swap story!

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[socaprince]

SOCA THERAPY - OCTOBER 13, 2024

Soca Therapy Playlist

Sunday October 13th 2024

Making You Wine from 6-9pm on Flow 98.7fm Toronto

Happy Carnival (Dr. Jay Plate) - Patrice Roberts

Bend - Nessa Preppy

Bruk Time - Grabba

Benderella - Kerwin Du Bois

Like Ah Boss (Ryan Sayeed Intro) - Machel Montano

Carnival Is Here (Ryan Sayeed Intro) - Kes The Band

Up & Up - Skinny Fabulous

So Bad - Ricky T

Do Like That - Lyrikal

Fatt - Nadia Batson

Drinking All Day - Hollywood Hp

Feeling It (TW Edit) - Swappi

Give Thanks - Hitz

Thanks - Rupee

Thanks For The Love - Kerwin Du Bois

Cyah Hear Yuh - Patrice Roberts

BYE x2 - Saddis x Jus Jay King

Stay Far - Problem Child

Falling - Machel Montano

Birthday Bashment Freestyle - Lil Rick

Ba Ba Ben (Wine & Bend Pt 2) - DJ Cheem

Market - Nadia Batson

One Piece - GBM Nutron x Tano

Push - Imij & Co.

Turnaround - Hot Sand

Aye Aye Aye (Remix) - Square One feat Alison Hinds

Gyal Wuk (Scratch Master Remix) - Machel Montano x Buji Banton

Carnival Calling - De Wassi One x Alison Hinds

Miami Vibes - Rootsman

TOP 7 COUNTDOWN - Powered By The Soca Source

Top Soca Streamed on iTunes (World Category) in the United States Of America (Oct. 10th)

7. Would You - Farmer Nappy

6. Tabanca - Mical Teja

5. Engine Room - Olatunji

4. Holiday - Problem Child

3. Face Down - Klassik Frescobar

2. Tempted To Touch - Rupee

1. Kitty Cat - Patrice Roberts

Is Mas - Patrice Roberts

In A Mess - Problem Child

Own It - Imani

Feting Family - Shal Marshall

Cause It - Zan

In The Center - GBM Nutron x Farmer Nappy

Niceness - Kenny Montana

Good Medicine - Jaiga

Buss Ah Wine - Bunji Garlin x Fay Ann

She Got The Juice - Pumpa x Marvelous

Dip & Roll - Lyrikal

Everytime (Mr Vik Band Edit) - Nadia Batson

Plenty Gyal - Bunji Garlin

Bumpers Rule - Nadia Batson

Yeast - KMC

Throwback - Ding Dong x System 32

Energy - Mical Teja

Make Love (Remix) - Machel Montano x Buju Banton

Talk To Me - Kes

PAN MOMENTS

Bazodee - Ray Holman

TANTY TUNE

(1988) Doctor Carnival - Machel Montano

Carnival Is Bacchanal - Ghetto Flex x Rocky

Leh Me Know - Stacy

Do for Do  Lil Rick

All Is Yours - Onika Bostic

O Weh O - Vanilla

DNA - Mical Teja

VI People - Spectrum Band

Workout - Jougo x Adam O

Carnival Jumbie - Problem Child

Gravity Falls - Sweet NewGen Band

Tomorrow - Brucelee Almightee

Showcase - Small Axe Band x Ras Kelly

Look Something To Talk About - Ricky T

The Tape - Dash

Anxiety - Patrice Roberts

Soca Therapy (Extended Intro) - Lil Rick x King Bubba

NORTHERN PRESCRIPTION

All Woman Special - Connector x Radford Etienne

Me Lover - Teddyson John

Blessing Me - Jimmy October x Coutain

Bless Me - GBM Nutron

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Lenova Ideapad 3 17iil05: My Review as a Linux User

This is the most expensive and nicest new computer I have ever owned (I have had several used computers that were nicer in their time.) I bought it at a severe discount, open-box, right before Best Buy brought in new stock for the holiday season.

Specs:

Processor: Generation 10 Intel Core i5-1035G1 (4 cores, 8 threads)

Base memory: 8GB soldered ram

Memory Slot: DDR4 SODIMM

Drive: 1TB HDD

GPU: Intel UHD

Removable Storage: SD slot

Other features: NOVO Button, Fingerprint sensor, Webcam with physical shutter, extended keyboard with keypad and media keys, Secure Boot, Bluetooth

I had trouble with this laptop initially. The UEFI firmware includes a bunch of proprietary secure boot stuff, to the effect that I couldn't figure out how to make it boot GRUB from a UEFI partition. Luckily, I still remembered how to do legacy boot under Arch Linux, so I never looked deeper into it. I couldn't use the hard drive that came with it, either, as it had some kind of Windows recovery partition (I think this ties in with the NOVO Button) that CFDISK under Linux couldn't delete. I first tried a 500GB HDD that I had lying around, but it physically didn't fit in this extremely thin-line laptop, so I pulled the 1TB SSD from my old laptop, backed it up, then wiped it, set up Arch and Artix on it in separate partitions, and went to work setting up a livable system.

On a similar note, the touchpad is not compatible with certain Linux kernel modules, for which the proper solution is to blacklist those modules. The quick fix, however, is to just add "pci=nocrs" to your kernel command line (edit it in /etc/default/grub, then regenerate the grub configuration with grub-mkconfig), and this is what I've done, since I mess with the kernel command line on all my systems anyways. As well, there are no Linux drivers for the biometric lock, which is fine by me, as I don't use a display manager, though this may frustrate someone else.

Overall, its Linux compatibility seems very high, as befits Lenovo, who have historically sold some of their pro models with Enterprise-grade Linux distros installed. I did occasionally see some visual artifacts in graphics-intensive programs early on, but this has reduced or stopped since I set up the Intel-specific microcode kernel module. I have had no other hardware or firmware problems, since fixing the touchpad issue.

It's fast, especially with the SSD in it. It cold boots to the login screen in a few seconds, seemingly faster with the systemd-based Arch than with Artix using Runit as its init system--I find this very interesting, as I've always heard that systemd is exceptionally bloated, but I draw no firm conclusions. Eventually I mean to try out an OpenRC-based distro.

Even with just the base 8g of memory (it won't take any of the DDR4 ram chips I have, for reasons that are beyond me,) it does not complain when loading hi-resolution images in GIMP, nor about running Firefox with many tabs open. I have noticed some glitches in Firefox that I did not see under Fedora 33 on my last computer, but I think that's down to Arch being a rolling-release distro. I have only heard the fans on this laptop spin up about four or five times. I made a swap partition though, if i were starting from scratch, I would not do so again; Linux is not inherently very swappy, and even with slightly raised "swapiness" in the system configuration, Linux doesn't seem to reach the point of needing to swap very often, if at all--this, with only eight gigs installed and multiple graphics-intensive programs running. And Linux uses physical memory quite zealously, so as not to render it a wasted resource!

Monitoring the cores with HTOP, each of the eight logical cores seems to receive a very balanced portion of the workload, and I've never seen the whole processor load go up above 30%--usually, it hovers around 6-8%, or about 15% when streaming HD video.

The keyboard is comfortable, full-sized and quiet even by laptop standards. My only complaints are the lack of a "menu key" next to the right Alt key, in favor of new Mac-style arrow keys that are wider than normal keys and not necessarily very comfortable to use with your pinky, as I do (when forced to use arrow keys at all.) The full keypad is nice, though num-lock is placed inconveniently, and the second "Insert" (which is the alternate function of the keypad's "0" key) is easy to hit by accident. Dedicated PrtScr, Insert and Delete keys are also present, as well as media control keys. Hot keys can be turned off in firmware, which I did.

The screen is very large, with adequate resolution and brightness and a luxury matte finish that hides smudges.

The wifi range is excellent, important, as my router is downstairs from my living room. Bluetooth is cumbersome to configure under Linux, but it also has excellent performance.

Now, as to my problems with this laptop:

There are only two USB 2.0 and one USB 3.0 port, all on the left side. There is, of course, no VGA port, though that would genuinely be expecting too much, I think. The whole right side feels wasted, with nothing but a pinhole for the NOVO system and an SD slot.

The laptop is thin and very wide. This leads to it feeling flimsy. Picking it up with one hand is generally a bad idea.

Also, multiple screws have fallen out of the bottom over the few months I have owned this computer. I think they knew this was a problem, and I think they used mild loctite on these screws, which I destroyed when I opened the computer to swap the drive. I've replaced all these screws, but it's a very irritating problem to have.

Between the UEFI problems, the effort required to fix the touchpad issue, and the slight physical frailty of the computer as a whole, I wouldn't necessarily recommend this as someone's first Linux laptop, unless you can get it at a discount, but if you don't mind having a little trouble to get there, it can be quite rewarding. I would recommend not worrying too much about upgrading the RAM... it barely needs it unless you're going to try to make it run AAA games, which... why not just keep it running Windows 10 in that event? And for god's sake, pick it up with both hands.

[swapdancepapyrus]

Holiday tag

Tagged by: bubbz(isbackintown)

Name/Nickname: Swappy

Gender: Male

Favorite cold weather drink: Warm/Hot Apple Cider

White or colored holiday lights: ALL OF THE LIGHTS

Favorite winter sport: none. the cold iz evil.

Number of blankets I sleep with: as many as i can get my bone-y hands on

Preferred holiday confection: Straight eggnog is literally the most festive ive gotten. holiday steak needs to be a tradition.

What I’m currently wearing: Technically nothing atm. 

Preferred snowy weather activity: ((bubbz it is not safe to make your face into an icicle!!!)) Sleeping.

Last thing you baked: i think it was banana bread... or some sort of pizza... it was with my sisters. idk what i made. 

Homemade or store-bought gifts: Store bought, no one in my family wants me to draw anything for them. im an eyesore to ‘em. so. i give them things i buy fr them. 

Favorite Christmas/holiday movie: NONE! IVE SEEN TOO MANY. the charlie brown cartooned ones are still pretty classic though. i can tolerate those.

Opening presents morning or eve: Ive had more than one holiday where i did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. last time it was one gift for eve. then the rest later... or was it just stockings? idk. all i know is. it wasnt crazy memorable. i rarely got anything i liked. 

Favorite holiday song: Carol of the bells. literally any orchestrated version. any instrumental stuff with that song is to dust for.

I tag: no one, but if you wanna reblog with your fave stuff feel free.

[socaprince]

SOCA THERAPY - FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Soca Therapy Playlist

Sunday February 25th 2024 

Making You Wine From 6-9pm on FLOW 98.7fm Toronto

Good Vibes Only (Dr. Jay Plate) - GBM Nutron

Vicey - M1

Famous - Shal Marshall

Bare Good Vibes - Shal Marshall

Sample - Problem Child 

Best Jam Ever - Patrice Roberts 

Soca Party - Jimmy October & Tano

Calypso - V'ghn

Endless Vibration - Marge Blackman x Nailah Blackman

Birthday Bashment Freestyle - Lil Rick

Ba Ba Ben - DJ Cheem

Oh Gyal - Raymond Ramnarine 

Own Ting - Lyrikal

Lift Up - Nadia Batson

Meet We Down Dey - Patrice Roberts x XplicitMevon

HYMC - Sekon Sta x XplicitMevon

Rum Gyal Money - Rome x XplicitMevon

Livin' Meh Life - Farmer Nappy

The Answer - Erphaan Alves

Junction - Coutain & Tano

Tack Back - Kes & Tano

When Last - GBM Nutron x Jus Jay King

Runaway - Mical Teja

Happy - Skinny Fabulous

Dance - Machel Montano x Kassav

Duck- This Is KASH x Swappi 

Calendar Riddim - Signal Band feat Shelly & DJ Drixx

Anxiety - Patrice Roberts

TOP 7 @ 7 (Powered By The Soca Source)

Top Soca Songs Streamed in Toronto on Spotify

7. Miracle - Kes & Tano

6. All My Love - Kes, Master Brain & Kai

5. Market - Nadia Batson

4. Penthouse - Voice

3. Holiday - Problem Child

2. Carnival Contract - Bunji Garlin

1. DNA - Mical Teja

Mash Up - Blaxx 

Ring Ding (Platta Intro) - King Bubba

Time Ah We Life (DJ Jime Intro) - Tian Winter

Can You Feel It - DJ Private Ryan x Terri Lyons

Where I Am - Freetown Collective

How Ah Livin - Farmer Nappy

Angel - Imani Ray

Fete Woman and Alcohol (F.W.A) - Terron

Impossible - Problem Child feat Patrice Roberts

The Menu - Teddyson John 

Ah Love It Here - Ricardo Drue

I See Lots - Machel Montano and Morgan Heritage

Inventor (Izaman) - Olatunji

PAN MOMENTS Inventor - Massy Trinidad All Stars

TANTY TUNE (1975) Hello Africa - Eddie Grant

Possessed - Machel Montano, Kerwin Du Bois feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Little Wine (Remix) - Patrice Roberts

Everytime - Nadia Batson

Life After Fete - Kerwin Du Bois

Over And Over - Benjai

Jammette - Denise Belfon

We Doh Watch Face - Bunji Garlin

We Don't Watch Face - King Bubba & Lil Rick

Waistline - Quan De Artist

Tidal - Erphaan Alves

Beatin Road - Preedy & Smiddy Smith

Document We - Shal Marshall x Kerwin Du Bois

Child Of Bacchanal - Viking Ding Dong, Lyrikal & Travis World

Today - Bunji Garlin

Come Home (Truck Mix) - Skinny Fabulous, Nailah Blackman & Int'l Stephen

The Ambush - Lyrikal feat Lil Natty & Thunda

Rollin - Patrice Roberts & Machel Montano

NORTHERN PRESCRIPTION Truck n Bend - Jus Wata

My All - Nadia Batson

Round & Rosie - Nailah Blackman

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[jan-hen]

Barbie Miles 04 - Holiday

Swappy Holidays from Jan-Hen & Miles! A special holiday part of the series developed by Emily and myself.

Once again starring Miles, who swapped lives with a Barbie doll thanks to a magic spell! At a special event, Miles has taken over the role of Sexy Santa Barbie™, and is giving out some cute gifts to all the boys and… boys. Little do these recipients know that these girly gifts were all cursed by Abby, and these lads are all doomed to turn into cute girly barbie doll femboys just like Miles!

Thanks so much for making another year magical, folks. Merry Xmas, and Happy Holidays! As always, look out for more of this series in the future!

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[jan-hen]

Head Swap 007 - Swappy Holidays 2020!

This was originally posted on 25 December 2020. An OC of mine and Santa himself swapping with some holiday babes for Christmas! Feel free to check out the full resolution version on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/retrosqueeze